Jeremy Isaacs
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Last Updated: 22 Sep 2026
Founding Partner
London, GB
Profile Verified by The Marque
Last Updated: 22 Sep 2026
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Biography
Sir Jeremy Isaacs CBE, Founding Partner of JRJ Group, has over four decades of experience in investment and the financial services industry. At JRJ Group, he works on fund strategy execution and guidance, as well as the development and implementation of portfolio company strategy. Jeremy also plays a key role in setting up and maintaining JRJ Group's extensive financial industry ties with senior executives from a variety of institutions, as well as regulators and governments.
Prior to establishing JRJ Group, in late 2008, Jeremy was the Chief Executive Officer of Lehman Brothers in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Before joining Lehman Brothers, he was the head of Goldman Sachs' European equities derivative trading department.
He is involved in a variety of philanthropic endeavours, including as a Trustee of The J Isaacs Charitable Trust. Having been involved with Noah's Ark Children's Hospice since 2009, and its Chair from 2017 to April 2022, Jeremy is now the charity’s Honorary Life Chair. Jeremy also served on the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust's Non-Executive Board from 2003 to 2016, as well as the British Olympic Advisory Board from 2007 to 2012 and the Bridges Development Fund Advisory Board from 2008 to 2018.
In December 2024, the King awarded a knighthood to Jeremy in the New Year Honours List 2025, for services to philanthropy and to Children’s Hospice Care. In 2015, Jeremy was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in HM The Queen's Birthday Honours for his services to the NHS. Jeremy is a London Business School Honorary Fellow and, in May 2019, received Doctor of Philosophy Honoris Causa from the Haifa University, Israel.
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Background
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2009 — Present
Founding Partner
JRJ Group
At JRJ Group, Jeremy is closely involved with the implementation and guidance of fund strategy, as well as the development and execution of portfolio company strategy. He is also central to the development and maintenance of JRJ Group’s extensive financial industry relationships with senior personnel across the institutional landscape, as well as with regulators and governments.
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1996 — 2008
CEO for Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific
Lehman Brothers
Jeremy held senior executive positions beginning in 1996. He was appointed CEO for Europe and the Middle East in 1999 and was additionally named CEO of Asia-Pacific in 2000, (positions he held simultaneously until 2008).
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1989 — 1996
Executive Director
Goldman Sachs
Jeremy joined Goldman Sachs in 1989 rising to the position of head of European equity derivative trading.
In The News
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8 December 2025 · Global Banking & Finance Review
Ex-Lehman Brothers executive-backed Mayflower raises $500 million in London SPAC IPO
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11 January 2025 · eHospice
Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice Honorary Life Chair, Jeremy Isaacs CBE, awarded a Knighthood
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7 January 2025 · Barnet Post
Knighthood for philanthropist ‘instrumental’ to growth of local children’s hospice
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2 January 2025 · Civil Society News
Charity sector figures named in New Year Honours List 2025
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31 December 2024 · The Independent
The New Year Honours list 2025 in full: Every person celebrated this year
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31 December 2024 · The Mirror
New Year Honours List 2025 in full - from Gareth Southgate to Myleene Klass and Sadiq Khan
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1 August 2022 · Sky News
Marex clinches $220m deal to buy ED&F Man Capital Markets
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4 April 2022 · Civil Society News
Who's Moving: Royal Foundation, Mencap, Sense and more
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29 March 2022 · Charity Today
Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice appoints new Chair
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